Rant of the day lol

[yamahonkawazuki]

Feel free to let loose here. Ill start 
At the shop, im a watch guy, i repair and rebuild watches. also im the go to guy on computers. most of the computers belonged to ppl who had no business owning one. aka 15 toolbars. I end up recovering them orreinstalling windows. Not worth the time to remove cr*p. tired of that sh*t.  . i repaitr an EEE mini ( netbook) soldered a power jack on it. its running great. its stablemate which i had performed a reinstall on, WAS running great, i come in after doing some outside work on the marquee,
I find it blackscreened. ¿wtf?, i restart. its not seeing its HDD. at all. i tear it apart, remove HDD, reinstall. and pwoer up. same thing. Great. got to find a lappy HDD. or an external i can cannibalise IF the drive is SATA. or just break out the hammer 

[adidasguy]

Why do courts still have "sketch artists"?
Haven't we progressed beyond the days of bright flash photography (which I imagine is the reason).
Come on, cameras are stealth and silent.
And these so called "artists" are getting really crappy. Worse than some Japanese anime or a monkey scribbling his poo on the side of a building.

And why can a judge "strike it from the record". It happened - so why edit it? Everyone in the court heard or saw it. Justice is edited to suit the judge and politics.

[Kiwingenuity]

We have moved offices 3 times in the last month and a bit following earthquakes and inspections.. useless people didnt help with moving gear out of the old office building, and expect it to magically teleport to the new offices somehow... 

My last Month and a bit..

EDIT: Earthquake 1 :EDIT
Week 1 - Move 1 - partner company office, limited WAN, limited access (Tokens got forgotton) - Like a LAN party, but everyone is expected to do work
Week 2 - Move 2 (Back to original office) - Life is good (aside from useless people expecting teleporting of their equipment).
EDIT: Earthquake 2 :EDIT
Week 3 - Move back to partner office - lessons learned on what gear to take - life semi ok if you don't mind 3 people to a desk
Week 4 - Get new temp office, assist IT guy with fitout (desks power and temporary network). No Comms except for mobile
Week 5 - no Domain Controller, no printers, no landlines (VOIP), WAN access via Aussieland over 3G wifi.
Week 6 - no Domain Controller, no printers, no landlines (VOIP), WAN access via Aussieland over 3G wifi VDSL.
Week 7 - Fritzy Domain Controller, finally get local printers, still no landlines (VOIP), WAN access slow but not too bad...
And our corporate overlords wonder why productivity is down this month...

Oh well, can't complain - I rescued the coffee machine, so thats improved morale and productivity. More importantly, I don't have to walk 1km to get to my bike park... Trying to get a systems and control paper finished this semester and its been rather busy...

Yama - does it show a disk failure? or just total black screen (no POST?)

[Zmerica19]

hey yama, any chance you have a factory reset disk for my hp presario cq56 laptop? i want to start fresh because i downloaded a bad music program, then a friend tried fixing it and never finished. i tried doing a reset from a save point and its not far enough back to fix my computer

and now my rant, here in Rochester, NY there is big news about a 5 month "pregnant" african american woman being taken down by an officer. a neighbor had called the cops because some family members were fighting in the street, when the officers were trying to subdue a gentleman the "pregnant" woman tried intervening. she pulled a can of pepper spray on them and when he restrained her you can see that she keeps reaching for the officers belt and he clearly tells her to stop. so as a tactical move he gave her a open handed smack on the back of the head to change her focus because she was resisting arrest and took her to the ground.  if she was pregnant she should be more concerned about the welfare of the child in her stomach rather than fighting with the police, she continued to scream and act like a fool. now you can call a racist card all you want but a large percentage of crimes in rochester are in the black community, there are constant shooting and stabbings.

[adidasguy]

I really get pissered off when people pull the race card.

Then:
You have the national association for the Advancement of Colored People - but they don't want to be called "colored" so... why don't you change the name of the NAACP?

United Black man College Fund - but you can't use that term so why not change the name of the UNCF?

Miss black America is OK but Miss White America is racist.

Black Entertainment Awards is OK but not White Entertainment Awards.

As far as I'm concerned, you can have those, as long as there can be a "white" of the same thing.

People need to know why they are against something or why it is bad. When I was a kid, everyone said communism was bad. Good or bad, no one had any answer when I asked why except "They don't believe in god".  There's more to a reason - but people blindly follow like sheep when told something.

Cuba is bad because of communism but China is not? Why? Must be money. Why do we still have a cob up our butt over Cuba?

"I believe in Values!" Now doesn't that make me sound like a really great guy? Politicians use that statement, but never say "what values" they believe in. That's up to your imagination. That's why you vote for them.

Ammo shortage is getting over - the good news. Outdoor Emporium has unlimited 9mm Blazer Brass  and MagTech for $14 a box. Only shortage is .22's (But they had a pallet of them for a week until they sold out). No limits on what you can buy.

[Zmerica19]

oh and the entire time they were calling the officers crazy a$$ crackers. i understand that using the N word nowadays is bad but in order to get respect you have to give/earn it. calling people crackers is sort of a racist term in my eyes. i work in the city, i do like some african american people, some are really nice and friendly and dont talk with slang. then there are the hood rats like the low life scum in my rant

[adidasguy]

Every group has their share of scum bags. We tend to accept the dooshbags that are in our circle. If we didn't how could Harley people ever put up with each other?

[Janx101]

wow .. thats a lot of stateside angst!! .. all in one day!! ... getting tetchy cos its closer to end of riding season guys?!? 

.. cept for Kiwi of course... man! .. i can relate to that issue... doing removals is my business ... seeing how many people in a lot of offices can barely help themselves get organised .. we pick up the pieces a lot over the years .. dont envy you Kiwi Bro! 

[Kiwingenuity]

The one good being refugees from our old office is no one has been able to bring ALL their crap over.. nothing like a forced clean out and clutter free office.. 

That and I am glad to see the powers that be actually looking out for the minions workplace safety and getting us out of a dodgy building into one that is 105% of code...

[Janx101]

yup! ... safety plus+ is always good...

you watch ... the hoarders ... they will gradually try to sneak in a lot of their old familiar crap!! .. like packrats!! 

[yamahonkawazuki]

Try getting a UNCF scholarship as a white guy. it wont happen. good luck filing a racism challenge lol. anyhoo ill stop. as far as the cq57/56 problem, try this. open up start, err hit windows key/click start if possible. type in recovery, should be something in there saying same thing. get into that menu. look for "advanced recovery methods. " should be something like " restore computer to factory condition"  as long as it doesnt say ( requires windows disc)  it WILl erase drive and reinstall windows. BTW addy, BET fits as a name. but white entertainment television COULD be confused with a porno channel, cause its initials would be WET

[yamahonkawazuki]

Every group has their share of scum bags. We tend to accept the dooshbags that are in our circle. If we didn't how could Harley people ever put up with each other?

or suzuki, or even those weird asustralian BMW riders? lol

[Zmerica19]

as far as the cq57/56 problem, try this. open up start, err hit windows key/click start if possible. type in recovery, should be something in there saying same thing. get into that menu. look for "advanced recovery methods. " should be something like " restore computer to factory condition"  as long as it doesnt say ( requires windows disc)  it WILl erase drive and reinstall windows.

i already tried that and unfortunately it requires the disk. but i think its like $30 and for a disk that i may use once kind of sucks!

[yamahonkawazuki]

as far as the cq57/56 problem, try this. open up start, err hit windows key/click start if possible. type in recovery, should be something in there saying same thing. get into that menu. look for "advanced recovery methods. " should be something like " restore computer to factory condition"  as long as it doesnt say ( requires windows disc)  it WILl erase drive and reinstall windows.

i already tried that and unfortunately it requires the disk. but i think its like $30 and for a disk that i may use once kind of sucks!

kk was afraid of that. which version of 7 ( im assuming) is it?, you CAN download an iso of 7, and put that in, and use the key from computer. ( it IS legit) that is an option to consider

[Zmerica19]

i might have to bite the bullet and buy the disk. a friend of mine tried messing with it and downloading a different disk on to my computer. then it asked for what model in specific. the cq56 has 2 series and like 8 versions in each series. now he lives in south carolina along with the disk, i did find out what model it was though!

[The Buddha]

Since this is open season on ranting ...

Rant #1

Who the Fluck designed pants with pockets that are not wide enough that stuff you put in your pocket ends up on the outside of your leg, and slide down to under your butt when you sit or ride ...
If the pocket was wide enough, the stuff will be on the inside of your leg, and not go anywhere, cos its limited by the pocket itself. 20c of material, and 100 times more useable ...

Here is #2 ...

OK restaurants and fast food places serve sweet tea ... I get it, it has to be made hot, else it wont steep ... But they make it to drinkable strength ... ecxept its still warm ... if you want it cold, they say put Ice in it ... you morons, hot tea + ice = watery tea = undrinkable ... How many times did you flunk 3rd grade before you became fast food manager

The best part is ... if you ask em if they have tried it, they promptly say, I dont drink that ... very nice I would say ...


Here is rant #3 -

Its not a rant per se, more of a joke ...

I went to a yard sale saturday ... the 3 people @ yard sale were a white woman in her 60's maybe, another white woman in her 30's and a little white girl 5-6-7 ...

And there was a box full of clothes titled ... "BABY GIRL CLOSE" I decided to be a smart ass and make up a joke explaining it ... I went like a blind guy ... reaching for the things in the box, and finally when I touched something ... I said, yes the baby must be "close" they looked @ me like I was 

Cool.
Buddha.

[Zmerica19]

-i dont even want to get started on people texting and driving or just blatantly pulling out in front of motorcycles. in rochester it seems never ending, these jackass's have their own rules for the road.

-my work is a block or two from the scrap yard so i do get a kick out of the things i see people putting in or on there vehicles, scrappers will load those cars full just to get that little bit of money, because you have to remember. all of that driving around they do costs money, so finally they get a car full of scrap metal, take it to the yard and make very little on it.

-i work for a siding company so on resides we usually have old aluminum that we take off of houses; fascia and what not. so anyways, one day we were finishing up a reside, yanking gutters and putting new fascia on the house and had a nice sized pile of aluminum. a scrapper pulls up and asks for the metal and i simply tell him no and he drives off. towards the end of the day my foreman starts getting a little dickish because there is alot to do and not alot of time; of course this makes me a little heated. THEN a second scrapper decides to show up and i tell this guy no its ours, sort of with an attitude of course, and this guy decides to give me some lip. calls me an a$$hole and as he is driving away decides to yell "fluck you" .... so anyways the nerve of some people, i may be in the wrong but i dont think i should work my ass off to make a living and people have the nerve to come around asking for free hand outs so they can make money off of it and not work

[john]

What really pisses me off is when people at work get spyware/ransomware and somehow it's my fault.  We try to make sure machines are protected but some users (owners, VP's) insist on having admin rights.  I then get to spend time cleaning/fixing their shaZam! only to have them breathing down my neck to get it done.  The zeroaccess rootkit is a particular favorite of mine.

It makes me want to punch a baby. 

[Zookmang]

Makes me irate when a taxi or a hirecar swerves from the far right lane across two lanes into the bus lane with no indicator on, almost killing me and honking me for it.. and when people merge into you in the merging lane with no indicator on... and when people lean on your car or brush against it on their way past... bastards...

[yamahonkawazuki]

What really pisses me off is when people at work get spyware/ransomware and somehow it's my fault.  We try to make sure machines are protected but some users (owners, VP's) insist on having admin rights.  I then get to spend time cleaning/fixing their shaZam! only to have them breathing down my neck to get it done.  The zeroaccess rootkit is a particular favorite of mine.

It makes me want to punch a baby.

put a keylogger in. tell ya wherever they go. course telling them to lay off the pr0n might not bode well for ones career Eh?